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Sentence Basics
Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound/Complex
True or False
What kind? simple, compound, complex, compound/complex
What kind? declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
100
Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
What are the four types of sentences?
100
This is an independent clause with no dependent clauses. Both the subject and the predicate can be compound as long as there are no dependent clauses in the sentence.
What is a simple sentence?
100
All sentences must end in a period.
What is false? Sentences can also end in question marks or exclamation points.
100
Jack and Jill fell down the hill.
What is simple?
100
Bill Clinton used to live in the White House.
What is declarative?
200
This sentence ends with an !
What is an exclamatory?
200
This contains two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
200
All sentences ending in periods are declarative.
What is false? Imperative sentences often end in periods as well.
200
For the first time in my life, I cooked dinner for my family.
What is complex?
200
The Lions won the championship!
What is an exclamatory?
300
The type of sentence a teacher uses when he orders you to do your homework.
What is an imperative?
300
This contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
300
A complex sentence contains one or more dependent clauses.
What is true?
300
Jack rolled down the hill, and Jill ran down it.
What is compound?
300
Grab me a water while you're in there.
What is imperative?
400
These sentences ask a question.
What is an interrogative?
400
True or false: The following is a compound sentence: Julie and Sarah went for a run.
What is false. The presence of two subjects does not mean a sentence is a compound.
400
A compound subject does not equal a compound sentence.
What is true?
400
Jack rolled halfway down the hill and ran the rest of the way down.
What is complex?
400
Napoleon was a very short man.
What is declarative?
500
The subject of the following sentence: Get out of here.
What is you?
500
The term for a sentence that has more than one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. Example: Although I used to eat a lot of chocolate, I don't anymore because once I got sick after eating fourteen Reese's Cups in a row.
What is a compound-complex sentence? Although I used to eat a lot of chocolate = dependent I don't anymore = independent I got sick after eating fourteen Reese's Cups in a row = independent
500
Teachers love exclamation marks in their students' writings.
What is false. Most teachers consider exclamation marks a sign of an inexperienced writer.
500
David currently works as a mailman, but he's hoping to become a piano teacher.
What is compound?
500
Please be nice to your brother.
What is imperative?